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Want more examples from talk radio’s not-so-distant scandalous past? Click through our rogue’s gallery of talk show hosts that have gotten into trouble for letting their mouths outrun their better judgment. ...Sharpton was unimpressed: 'You ought to be fired.' On April 12 CBS did just that, firing Imus a day after MSNBC announced it would no longer broadcast his radio show. ...'(Michael J. Fox is) moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act,' said Limbaugh. ...Savage was fired from his MSNBC talk show in 2003 for calling an openly gay caller a 'sodomite,' adding that 'you should only...

Howie Carr live thread. (First hour of Howie's show won't be on WRKO or WXTK on TUE and THU due to Red Sox, but I think WCRN will have it. Just a few more pre-emptions...)

Controversial gabster John DePetro blew it in Boston - one of the top radio markets in the country - but has landed a new job at a Rhode Island radio station. DePetro’s new morning talk show on WPRO-AM in Providence debuts Wednesday. The station wanted him so badly they fired host Dave Barber after a mere 10 months on the job. Boston’s WRKO-AM axed DePetro in November after he called gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on the air. In July, DePetro was suspended for two days and forced to apologize for calling ex-Turnpike boss Matt Amorello a “fag.”...

Attorney General Martha Coakley, I implore you: Don’t plea-bargain with the Turner terror tots. Whatever you want to call them - Beavis and Butthead, Cheech and Chong - these two knuckleheads deserve jail time. You already shook down Time Warner for $2 million, which was a good start. But to finish the job, you have to lock up these two freelance (read: unemployed) “performance artists,” if only for a month. I’m not encouraged by the fact that sources say you’ve been sitting on the smoking gun since Friday. I’d hate to see you pull a Tom Reilly and broom this...

John DePetro, recently dismissed talk show host on WRKO, will be holding a press conference today, according to the Boston Herald Messenger blog. Fired talk jock John DePetro wants his job back at Entercom-owned WRKO radio and he’s holding a 3 p.m. press conference today at his lawyer’s office. The statement points the finger at other WRKO AM personalities, saying Entercom “allows greater breadth of free speech to its other radio personalities.” DePetro and his board operator, Jimmy Kiesling, were fired last week after DePetro called gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on his morning show. DePetro has apologized...

Sources have confirmed that WRKO-AM radio talk show host, John DePetro has been fired from the station. DePetro, who has been with WRKO since 2004 came under fire yesterday after he referred to Green-Rainbow party candidate for governor, Grace Ross, a “fat lesbian” during his talk show. Four months ago, the shock jock was suspended for two days after calling former Turnpike chief Matt Amorello a “fag” on the air. Earlier today: WRKO talk jock John DePetro is back in the hot seat and fighting for his job after calling gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on his radio...

WRKO Radio talk show host John DePetro has been fired after he made a derogatory remark Thursday about the sexual orientation and the weight of Green-Rainbow party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. George Regan, a spokesman Entercom Communications, the owner of WRKO, said this morning that DePetro had been let go. A full statement from the company would be released shortly, Regan said. DePetro apologized on the air Thursday after making the remark about Ross, who describes herself on her campaign website as "a white lesbian living in Worcester" and life-long activist for gay/lesbian civil rights and other "progressive causes." DePetro...

WRKO suspended talk-show host John DePetro yesterday for using a slur for "homosexual" in reference to Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello. The morning host, who calls himself "The Independent Man," was suspended for two days after using the epithet on the air during a discussion of Amorello's conduct following the ceiling collapse of the I-90 connector. DePetro called Amorello "[expletive] Matt," adding, "I don't mean gay [expletive]. I mean like he's a sissy boy. He's a little sissy boy." Neither DePetro nor Amorello returned calls late yesterday, but WRKO program director Jason Wolfe said the station has "zero tolerance...